An architecture for transparent access to semantically heterogeneous information sources

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1202, Issue , 1997, Pages 260-271

  Reck, Christine ^a   König Ries, Birgitta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

AGENT ARCHITECTURES; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION SOURCES; INFORMATION SOURCES; QUERY EXECUTION PLAN; SERVICE PROVIDER; SIMPLE MODELING; TRANSPARENT ACCESS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 0342550647     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-62591-7_39     Document Type: Conference Paper

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